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Pamela Anthony, the dean of students at Iowa State University, will be leaving her position to begin her new work as the vice president of student affairs at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Photo by Julie Erickson/Ames Tribune. http://amestrib.com/news/anthony-reflects-time-isu-dean-students

Adam Boeding, vice president of commercial banking at First American Bank in Ames, has been named an Unsung Hero because of his work with Habitat for Humanity. Photo By Eli Hamann/Ames Tribune

Megan Primrose, an Iowa State University senior in animal ecology, holds Reptar, a turkey vulture who has become a long-term resident at the Wildlife Care Clinic connected to ISU's College of Veterinary Medicine. The clinic is currently looking for donations to rebuild the outdoor animal enclosures, or mews, which could be used to house patients like Reptar. Photo by Julie Ferrell/Ames Tribune

Bill Ripp and his daughter, Camille Helgeson, have both enjoyed long careers as educators in Ames. Ripp taught at Ames High school for seven years before later becoming associate principal, and Helgeson is in her 18th year of teaching at the elementary level in Ames. Photo by Melissa Erickson/Ames Tribune

The Meeker Grandmas, a group of retired Meeker staff, started meeting 26 years ago as a way to socialize and share photos and stories of their grandchildren. The group gathered at Meeker on Wednesday to say goodbye to the building, which will be demolished this summer before the new Meeker school opens in the fall. They are pictured here around a memorial bench they helped build for June Gibson, a grandma who died in 1994. Photo by Melissa Erickson/Ames Tribune

Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks to 350 high school girls at ISU on Thursday as part of a conference to encourage young women to study in STEM-related fields. Photo by Austin Harrington/Ames Tribune http://www.amestrib.com/news/20161027/lt-gov-reynolds-encourages-women-to-seek-stem-related-jobs

Co-brewers Jason Peterson and Matt Nissen and owner Elliot Thompson pose at their new Alluvial Brewery on West Street north of Ames. Photo by Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune

Iowa State University graduate Mary Woeste is going to Papua New Guinea to translate Bibles as a missionary and language surveyor with Wycliffe Bible Translators USA. Photo by Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune

George Moon inside the West Ames Hy-Vee. Moon retired Friday after 50 years working for the grocery company, 43 of them in Ames. Photo by Dan Mika/Ames Tribune http://www.amestrib.com/news/20161230/ames-man-retires-after-50-years-at-hy-vee

Chris Ihle and his daughter, Elizabeth, 8, pose with Ihle's Red Cross Hero of the Heartland award at an honorary breakfast Friday. Ihle pushed a car caught on a set of railroad tracks out of the way of an oncoming train last summer. Photo by Melissa Erickson/Ames Tribune

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., talked with a member of the audience as she signed copies of her book following her lecture Thursday night at Iowa State University. Photo by Austin Cannon/Ames Tribune http://www.amestrib.com/news/20170831/klobuchar-8216insist-on-better-way-forward8217

Iowa State University journalism professor Tracy Lucht shows her new book published on journalist Sylvia Porter at Hamilton Hall. Photo by Nirmalnedu Majumdar/Ames Tribune

Suzi Shierholz stands outside the Story County Community Foundation office Monday, an organization that she said has "been the love of my life for the past nine years." Shierholz, who stepped down as board chair and volunteer executive director earlier this year, is at the end of her third, three-year term on the foundation board. Photo by Melissa Erickson/Ames Tribune.